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KNITTED FABRIC AND MAGHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME. No. 246,248. Patented Aug. 23,1881.

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KNITTED PABRIG AND MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME. No. 246,248. Patented Aug. 28,1881. i

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KNITTBD FABRIC AND MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING THB'SAME.

Patented-Aug. 23,1881.

Ihvrre STATES PATENT Ormea.

GABRIEL UPTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GON- YERS BUTTON AND THEODORE A. FLEU, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

KNITTEDA FABRIC AND MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,248., dated August 23, 1881.

Application filed November 29, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom tt may concern:

Be it known that I, GABRIEL UProN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Im- 5 provement in Knitted Fabrics and in Machinery for Manufacturing the Same, of which the following is a specification.

The object ot' my invention is to produce an attractive knitted fabric for hoods, nubias, and

ro similar articles; and this object I attain in the manner and by the means which I will now proceed to describe, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l, Sheet l, is a face View ot' a piece 15 ot' my improved knitted fabric; Fig. 2, a sectional plan on the line l 2; Fig. 3, a sectional view otl part of a straight-frame knitting-machine which I use in nmnufacturing the i'abric; Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, diagrams illustrating 2o the process ot' manufacture; Fig. S, Sheet 2,

a front view, and Fig. 9, Sheet 3, an end View,

ot' the machine for producing the fabric.

On reference to Figs. l and 2 it will be observed that my improved fabric consists of a closely-knitted web, A, forming a backing for the face of the fabric, which is secured to said backing by means ot` threads a. The face ot' the fabric consists, preferably, ot' untwisted slivers Z), et wool or worsted, laid closely side by side, and each loop of binding thread is caused to embrace one of said surface-slivers and confine it to the backing A. The binding-threads are worked in zigzag courses and interlocked at the points of meeting. The method of making the fabric, however, will be understood on reference to Figs. 3 to 7 of the drawings. In Fig. 3, D represents a row ot' ordinary guided latch needles, and E, F, G, and H four rows of guides. The guides E carry the threads e, which form the backing-l nected chainstitches. The slivers b are simply vibrated between the needles, but are not wrapped around the same, and the bindingthreads are first worked to the right and then to the left on the desired number ot' needles, each thread, when working on the eXtreme needles of its set, being interlocked with the adjoining threads working on the same needles. The fabric is fed forward after the formation of each stitch, thereby causing thezigzag course of the binding` threads and producing the quilted e'ect shown in Fig. 1.

The binding-threads may take courses different from that shown, the latter not beingabsolutely necessary to 'the function of the threads-namely, the securing the slivers b to the backing-fabric A.

In Figs. and 9 I have shown the machine whereby my improved fabricis manufactured. This is an ordinary straight-frame knittingmachine, and is operated inthe usual manner.

I is the main shaft, which receives motion by means of gearing from the counter-shaft I. The shaft I carries cams d, which impart a vertical reciprocating motion to the needleframef through the medium of suitable arms and connecting- I'Ods,j". On the shaft I is a cam, g, which serves to impart a vibrating movement to a lever, J', and the latter is connected by a link, h., to an arm, t', on a rockshaft, m, from which the various bars carrying the guides E, F, G, and H are suspended by means of rods u. Each guide bar is free to move longitudinally independent ot' the rockshat't, and this longitudinal movement is effected by means of pattern-chains p, which act upon bell-crank levers s, the latter beingconnected by means of rods t to the guide-bars, there being one pattern-chain, lever, and connecting-rod for each guide-bar; but the-pattern-chain ot' the bar carrying the guides F is blank, so that no longitudinal movement is imparted to this bar.

In order to keep the levers s properly in contact with the pattern-chain p, the ends of the bars opposite to those to which the rods t are connected are furnished with springs w.

I claim as my inventionl. The within-described knitted fabric, consisting of a backing, A, ofcontinuous knitted IOO fabric, the surfaee-threads, laid closely side and laterally vibrating' and longitudinally reby side, and the threads a, looped over the surciproeatin g the guides E, Gr, and H, as set forth.

face-threads and nterloeked with the threads In testimony whereof I have signed my name 0f the backing,` between said surface-threads, to this speeieatiouin the presence of two sub- 5 S0 as t0 seeure the latter to the baeking, as set seribing witnesses. l

2. The combination of the needles D and (IALIUHJL U1 LON' guides E, F, G, and H with means, substan- NTitiiesses: tially as described, for vertically reciprocating HENRY HOWSON, Jr.,

ro the needles, laterally vibrating the guides F, HARRY SMITH. 

